A Domain-Independent Generative Adversarial Network for Activity Recognition Using WiFi CSI Data

Over the past years, device-free sensing has received considerable attention due to its unobtrusiveness. In this regard, context recognition using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) data has gained popularity, and various techniques have been proposed that combine unobtrusive sensing and deep learning to accurately detect various contexts ranging from human activities to gestures. However, research has shown that the performance of these techniques significantly degrades due to change in various factors including sensing environment, data collection configuration, diversity of target subjects, and target learning task (e.g., activities, gestures, emotions, vital signs). This problem, generally known as the domain change problem, is typically addressed by collecting more data and learning the data distribution that covers multiple factors impacting the performance. However, activity recognition data collection is a very labor-intensive and time consuming task, and there are too many known and unknown factors impacting WiFi CSI signals. In this paper, we propose a domain-independent generative adversarial network for WiFi CSI based activity recognition in combination with a simplified data pre-processing module. Our evaluation results show superiority of our proposed approach compared to the state of the art in terms of increased robustness against domain change, higher accuracy of activity recognition, and reduced model complexity.